Outdoor game in SoCal?

Watching a bit of Tuesday's outdoor game between the Buffalo Sabres and PittsburghPenguins on television after his team's practice at Honda Center got Ducks goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere to thinking.

Why not a matchup between the Ducks and Kings, at, say, the Home Depot Center in Carson?”

“I don't think we could fill the Rose Bowl with 80,000 people, but I think we could put 30,000 in the Home Depot Center,” Giguere said.

Long a champion of anything that would help build interest in hockey and the NHL, Giguere was dead serious. While winter weather in Southern California might not seem conducive to outdoor hockey, it is doable, Giguere said. With the right care taken during the day, such as placement of a tarp over the ice surface, and usual nighttime temperatures, it would be cold enough to play an outdoor game at night, Giguere said.

Certainly, there wouldn't be the snow that was present at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo on Tuesday. Then again, two days earlier, NHL Winter Classic organizers trucked in snow because there wasn't enough!

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